“SECRET” LEAFLET

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21154, 29 September 1938, Page 8

“SECRET” LEAFLET

Labour Candidate Still Not Satisfied Post Office Receipt Produced Still more was heard about the illeged "secret” leaflet of the National D arty dealing with the Government’s Social Security Scheme, at the Rev. jlyde Carr’s meeting at the Waima:aitai School last night. The subject first arose at Mr Carr’s neeting at the South School, when he iroduced a leaflet which he alleged vas to be issued by the National Party he day before the election, when the labour Party would have no chance >f refuting its contents. The National Party branch in Timiru, through its chairman, denied the itatement, and at the meeting at Wainataltal last night, Mr P. W. Young isked Mr Carr whether he still doubted he statement of the National Party hat the green pamphlet was not to ie held back until the day before the flection. Mr Carr: I still believe it was to be | ie!d back. Mr Young: They held it back until i hey knew you knew about it. Mr Carr: They knew some of us Knew about it and that was good mough for them. Mr Young then produced the Post Office receipt dated September 22 in-:’-’catlng that 600 leaflets had been posted that day. He added that there was correspondence on the flies of the National Party dated two weeks before Mr Carr’s statement dealing with the leafllet. Mr H. Sinclair Thomson: My wife was in the office of the National Party for two or three days before the Issue of the leaflets addressing envelopes ready for posting. Mr Carr: I don’t think it is •fair to bring your wife into it. I might say things to a gentleman and about a gentleman that I would not say to a lady. Mrs Sinclair Thomson: I am here to say it for myself. Mr Carr: I accept your word, madam. Mr Sinclair Thomson: Will you now apologise? Mr Carr: No I won't. Mr Sinclair Thomson: You accept my wife’s word but you won’t apologise. Mr Carr: I accepted her word that she was present in the office addressing envelopes In anticipation of them being issued on a certain date, but that does not alter what I have said at all. Mr Sinclair Thomson: It sounds very much like a shuffle. Mr Carr: So far as the National Party and its political activities are concerned, I have no more faith in them than I have in Old Nick.